About

Lynse Cooper (b. 1993) is an artist working primarily in photography. Her work centers themes of death & grief, decay & preservation, loss, isolation, and memory.

She is based in Northern California.


contact: cooperlynse [at] gmail [dot] com

Education

California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

MFA Fine Arts, 2022-2024


Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

BA Psychology with minors in Visual Arts & Neuroscience, 2012-2016

Solo Exhibitions

 Myrtle Vista, /room/ open call, Slash Art, San Francisco, CA

April 13th - May 25th, 2024

Lynse, Call Home, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ

April 2016

Selected Group Exhibitions

Forecast 2024, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, CA

July 16th - September 7th, 2024


MFA Thesis Show 1, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

March 14th - March 28th, 2024


Barclay Simpson Awardee Exhibition, CCA Campus Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

January 24th - February 9th, 2024


Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition, SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA

September - October 2023


Introductions 2023, Root Division, San Francisco, CA

August - September 2023





Awards

 2024 Forecast 2024 Jurors Prize, SF Camerawork


2024 Barclay Simpson Scholarship Awardee, California College of the Arts


2023 Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards, San Francisco Foundation, Cadogan Awardee


May 2023, All-College Honors, California College of the Arts, Grad Fine Arts Department


May 2022, 2022 Texas Photographic Society National Photography Award, Finalist-Special Merit

Residencies

2024 Summer Image Text Workshop Resident, Cornell University Art, Architecture, and Planning, Department of Art, Ithaca, NY

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